Bakir’s Distilleries: Coercion and Duress Quest Guide (The Blood of Dawnwalker)

Bakir’s Distilleries: Coercion and Duress is one of the Court activities you run to push the Mad Khan’s anger meter toward his boss quest. It is a short job with a long-winded name: get inside a walled distillery yard, kill everyone guarding it, decide what to do with the man working the still, and then wreck the equipment. Skipping that last part is the most common reason players walk away thinking they finished it.

Quick answer: Enter the gated distillery courtyard, defeat every guard, deal with the Distillery Worker, then interact with the highlighted brewing equipment to destroy it. The quest closes the moment the still breaks and pays 22 XP, 250 currency, and 1 skill point for 3 time segments.

How to unlock Coercion and Duress: The Letter of Reprimand

The quest does not sit on your map from the start. Court activities in Vale Sangora stay listed as unknown until you either stumble onto them or get pointed at them, and this one has a specific trigger. Clear one of Bakir’s Pillories jobs, then search the bodies of the soldiers you killed for a Letter of Reprimand. Reading that note opens two distillery targets at once: Coercion and Duress, and Bakir’s Distilleries: Ends and Means.

You can also just walk into the distillery itself. Crossing into the restricted yard starts the quest with no note required, which is useful if you found the building before you found the pillory.

The framing is simple enough. Bakir is pumping cheap liquor into the valley to keep the population too drunk to resist the vrakhiri, and your journal entry treats shutting a still down as breaking up the party.

Distillery location in Neustadt, Svartrau City

The still is tucked into the Neustadt district of Svartrau City, behind a gated yard in the alleys. Rooftops are the fastest approach. Open the map, set the marker, then travel across the roofs and drop into the alley beside the courtyard gate rather than fighting your way down the street.

Night is the better window. Shadowstep lets you climb walls and buildings freely after dark, and your claws hit harder than your sword, which matters in a cramped yard full of armored guards.

Sprinting through the city with the LShift sprint prompt on screen and the quest objective tracked — Sprinting toward the distillery with the tracked objective visible on the right. Image: Rebel Wolves

Sabotage the distillery: Full walkthrough

Drop into the alleys below Neustadt and pass through the gate into the restricted distillery grounds. The quest name appears in the tracker as soon as you cross the boundary, and the guards turn hostile immediately.

Fight the guards in the courtyard. They come in waves of two and three rather than all at once, so hold a corner and let them funnel to you instead of chasing them across the open ground.

Player grabbing a distillery guard marked with a yellow target indicator under his red health bar — A guard locked on with the yellow target indicator sitting under his health bar. Image: Rebel Wolves

Push the fight into the interior passages when the survivors retreat. The remaining defenders regroup near the barred gate and shout for revenge as they close in, so keep your back clear before you commit to a heavy swing.

Combat beside a barred gate inside the distillery as an enemy shouts to avenge a fallen comrade — The last defenders regroup by the barred gate inside the distillery. Image: Rebel Wolves

Finish off the armored stragglers in the stone corridor. These are the slowest enemies of the encounter and the ones most worth parrying rather than trading blows with.

Striking an armored guard in a narrow stone corridor with his health bar partly drained — An armored guard cornered in the stone corridor behind the yard. Image: Rebel Wolves

Talk to the Distillery Worker who survives the fight. He is not a guard, and the conversation is the only branching moment in the whole job.

Loot the bodies before you touch anything else. The guards drop coin and items, and this is your last free moment before the quest closes out.

Walk up to the brewing equipment and hold the interact prompt to destroy it. The tracker points you at it with a distance readout, so follow the meter count down if the still is hidden behind stacked barrels.

Quest tracker showing Bakir's Distilleries: Coercion and Duress with the sabotage objective six meters ahead — The tracker counts down the distance to the sabotage objective, six meters out. Image: Rebel Wolves

Distillery Worker dialogue choices

The worker is unarmed and will not fight you. You can kill him, feed on him, or send him running, and you can squeeze him for context first without losing the option to spare him afterward.

Line	What it does
“Why does Bakir care about alcohol?”	Background on the operation. Keeps the conversation open.
“Why not simply run away?”	The worker explains why he stayed. Keeps the conversation open.
“Get out of here before I change my mind.”	Spares him and lets him flee the yard.
“You die like the rest.”	Kills him.
“[give in to the hunger]”	Feeds on him with your vampiric side.

Note: sparing him has no effect on whether the quest completes. The sabotage objective is the only requirement.

Rewards, time cost, and quest data

Detail	Value
Type	Court activity (Bakir)
Region	Vale Sangora, Neustadt district of Svartrau City
Objective	Sabotage the distillery
Time cost	3 time segments
XP	22
Currency	250
Skill points	1
Recommended level range	Bakir’s content sits around level 18–25

Time in Vale Sangora is spent like currency rather than passing on its own, and you have 30 in-game days to reach Brencis and rescue your family. Three segments is a normal price for a Bakir job, and distillery work sits between the fast headhunter camps and the transports that force you to hunt a moving target.

How to confirm the quest completed

A QUEST ENDED card appears on screen with the quest name and your payout listed underneath, and the journal outcome reads that the distillery is shut down for business. If you have cleared the yard but nothing has triggered, the equipment is still standing. There is no partial credit for killing guards.

Two things stop it resolving cleanly. Leaving the area with the still intact keeps the quest open in your journal, and starting the march on Brencis closes it out with the alternate outcome noting you never had time to deal with it. Once you are committed to the endgame, the job is gone.

Every distillery you burn feeds Bakir’s anger level in the Court menu, and there are two more of them worth clearing. Ends and Means hides its still inside a barn behind a guarded yard, while Offshoot puts one in a cave out in the forest. Push the meter high enough and a jester named Farkas turns up outside Lunar Manor with an offer that leads straight to The Lunar Game.